his son paul worked for his father for several years before heading out west to live in los angeles so seems like have arnormal life from everything we're learning here but the police chief also said and told some local reporters that he had received indications from paul ciancia's father that he might try to harm himself and contacted counter participants in the los angeles police department. we're trying to verify details with the police now but seems like the police were trying to give a heads up to the lapd 679 piers? >> i think cnn learned in the last few minutes, actually, we believe there were text messages possibly sent by this suspect the his brother and father which were of angry and rambling nature indicating anti-government position and also dissatisfaction of living in los angeles. we have not verified another report that he used the word suicide. so still a moving fluid situation and we'll try and confirm more details later on. for now, chris, thank you very much, indeed. >>> now to the terror felt by those who were there. with me now two witnesses to the shooting, dana s